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Originally Posted by pwalker8
It's not outrageous, it's how the law is written and has been since the 30's. Where are you going to draw the line? Should people be able to charge for the amount of time it takes to get from home to work and back? I mean, actually showing up is generally required for continued employment.  |
You can draw the line that the party(s) who benefits pays. If it's a shared benefit it's a shared cost. In this case it's the company that is making the decision to implement or not and dumping the cost on the employees.
If Amazon was losing $500K a year from employee theft at this plant and it cost them $800K a year to implement the security scans then they would probably decide not to implement. If it only costs them $200K a year and they can dump that lost time on the employees it would be a different decision. If the decision is to have one security station and everyone waits 30 minutes a day or three security stations and everyone waits 10 minutes a day then Amazon's decision would be very different if the employees were on the clock or not.